Re: Mac OS X Leopard (Re: new problem)

[Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield@bellsouth.net>]

Hi Dan,

I'm clueless.  Can you explain why printing straight from Preview is  
printing "to a lowest common denominator?"  What are the  
limitations?  I know of none.

To be honest, I very rarely make digital prints.  When I have done--  
most recently a fairly large number of prints on Hahnemuhle paper on  
the 3800-- they were quite stunning (if I do say so myself). :)    
They're large files; they print just as I see them on my screen (both  
in color and in b&w), and they turn out beautifully.  I never had an  
issue with Tiger and the 3800.  It all ran smooth as silk.    
Nevertheless, I mostly use the 3800 for digital negatives.  I was  
using an Epson 2200 (which I still have) before I got the 3800.  I  
also had no problem with that printer, nor with printing capability  
or quality.

I would be curious to know, though, why you think think I've  
"handicapped" myself?   Under Tiger and under Leopard,  I scale the  
image directly in GIMP; I then put it in Preview to print.  (I do so,  
because I cannot print to the 3800 directly from the GIMP.  Don't ask  
me why.)

Once again, under Tiger, I had no problem with centering the image,  
nor with image size/paper size.  I do now with Leopard.  My guess is,  
if you're not having these same problems, you may be printing from a  
different Epson driver than the beta driver Epson currently offers  
the public (from their site) for use with Leopard.  I cannot imagine  
that the Epson 3800 and Leopard only work correctly with Photoshop.   
Is that what you're saying?

Also, how would "professional level image scaling" in Photoshop  
differ from that in Preview?  I'm not talking about making any other  
corrections-- just image-scaling.  I would love to know how that  
differs-- or rather, why you think it's more "professional" to scale  
in Photoshop than in Preview.  (Not being flippant here-- just  
honestly curious.)

If this is too off-topic for people, feel free to write off-list.

Thanks again.

Diana

Diana


On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Dan Burkholder wrote:

> Hi Diana,
>
> I'm a bit confused. Why would you assign any serious printing to a  
> lowest common denominator application like Preview? Can't you print  
> from Gimp? Between Gimp and Preview, it would seem you've  
> handicapped yourself and introduced the potential for problems. I'm  
> not trying to be critical, just outlining some things that might be  
> giving you grief. I can't speak to why you might have had good  
> results with this combo in Tiger, but I'm not having any 3800  
> problems printing from Photoshop with Leopard so I'm at a loss.
>
> I just printed a .psd file from Preview (there's a first time for  
> everything) and it printed exactly as it appeared in the preview  
> box (in the print dialog). True, you will not get professional- 
> level image scaling in Preview but one can easily make it fit any  
> page size you specify. My image printed exactly centered. Maybe I'm  
> just lucky or something.
>
> Sorry for not being able to help; maybe someone else who uses Gimp  
> and Preview can chime-in with suggestions.
>
> Dan
>
>
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